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- 1625/35
Date range: 1625/35
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This composite image, in its format, is like others on the next two pages (Fols 77r and 78r), dating from the sixteenth rather than the seventeenth century, that similarly join drawings of two different bases at a central axis. It may have been conceived as a counterpart to these other drawings, rather than as a copy of an earlier depiction of the same format. Why these two particular bases were put together is unclear since there is little correspondence between them, unlike the pair seen on the following page (Fol. 77r/Ashby 131). The word zoccolo (‘plinth’) written in graphite on the drawing’s left seems unnecessary on its own, and it would be better suited to accompanying the drawing on the right and completing the list of mouldings seen there. The number ‘20’ written in graphite refers to the seventeenth-century campaign to add additional drawings to the codex.
This side of the sheet was blank in the original Codex Coner compilation, and its damage and the presence of glue on it suggest that, after the original compilation was dismantled, the sheet was originally laid down before being remounted into a window.
RELATED DRAWINGS: [Anon.] Berlin, Kunstbibliothek, inv. OZ 114, fol. 4
OTHER IMAGES MENTIONED: [Anon. (formerly attributed to Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola)] Florence, GDSU, 1813 Ar (Bartoli 1914–22, 6. p. 113); [Giovannantonio Dosio] Florence, GDSU, 2010 A (Bartoli 1914–22, 6. p. 146)
Literature
Campbell 2004, 2, pp. 636–37
Census, ID 45743
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